Way to go dummies

[snowmoboarder]

I know where this happened and on Sat that pitch has about 90% chance of letting go on ya. You my friend have become the poster child for the uneducated over powered snowmobiler!

Now for you to choose to take your uneducated and lucky to be alive self on piers morgan is another level. No doubt done just for self promotion and does nothing at all for our sport you say you are promoting.

I was not going to comment on this at all but after you choose to go on TV I believe you opened yourself up for criticism for your choices not only to make a flat stupid decision in the BC but then to throw the rest of us under the bus by looking like well you did on national tv.

If you choose to make uneducated or otherwise stupid decisions please keep them to yourself and dont become the spokesman for the rest of us.

Advice to you is go get a avy 1 class for starters like before you go out again! Put your money where your mouth has been and dont go out again until you take a class like this one
http://www.snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369755

There are spaces so why are you not in this class?? You said you would so dont go out until you can educate yourself!

Finally stop with your media blitz that is making us all look like azzs..... You dont speak for me or many on here so until you can educate yourself at least stop with the obvious self promotion that does not help our cause out.

So is your money where your mouth is or are you all about lip service and self promotion?

Thanks

 

[Sticka]

Piers Morgan FAME

Mr. Cody Strong:

I just saw your interview on Piers Morgan Live. All I can say is “Wow!”

<OBeresford, South Dakota must be very proud. As a native South Dakotan I must apologize on behalf of the good people of SD for your presence in Colorado. I saw you posted on Snowest in DEC 2011 regarding M8 tuning issues. The post said you were in the Snowies at the time. So you have been too busy the last 2 years to educate yourself on backcountry snowmobile safety?
<O
I hope you have finished your “Shutdown Back Country Snowmobiling Media Tour.” I know you are young, but please exercise some amount of common sense moving forward.
<O
I’m sincerely embarrassed for you and your continued lack of good judgment.
<O
Glad you survived.<O

 

[strong]

Stupid, trust me I know. Why? because the avy danger was high that day and we looked at the web site, The spot I chose to go up was clearly a prone spot. Did I break it off? Idk there was two people on that same slope at the same time "stupid again" , (most likely it was a combo of both of us). Over powered snowmobile - defently that thing is crazy, why do i have it? Because I am addicted to horse power. I have a 700hp car and do I need that? not at all does anybody needs a 9's second car, why do we have them. As far as taking classes i have been signed up for them, but my job can have me called in at any time, and i can find out i am working sat-sunday on a friday at 4:00. Sucks. I have had to cancel twice and am signed up for another on as of now.

Piers Morgan? Crazy who would have ever thought right. Trust me Ted Nugent is my hero, I love guns. I drink beer and make bad decisions. (clearly)

Sadly that isnt even the start of the Media that has called me. As far as self promotion I asked for none of this, I never thought by putting a video on youtube i would be getting benefits from the views it gets. - Trust me, I sold the video and its rights to a company so i dont have to deal with it any more.

Why is it on youtube in the first place? I had no intentions of even putting it on youtube, it blew up on facebook and I was asked to put it on youtube from a guy from canada so he could teach people how dangerous they are.

As far as not going out in the backcountry and doing what ever i please, that sounds like Piers Morgan there,

Im no avy pro and i have to problem telling you that i dont know anything about them. However is there ever a SAFE time to climb a snowmobile? I am know days are higher then others, but there are risks in any sports or hobbies, the chance of the danger is what makes it so fun, going 160 in a car is dangerous but its sure fun doing it. Climbing a mountain on a snowmobile is dangers, skiing is dangerous, riding a bike is dangerous. Point being you can die walking across the street I would much rather die doing something crazy. There are pro riders that get caught in avalanches with plenty of avy schooling (nobody knows when its going to happen) -I fully understand there is a safer time to be doing this. The hill this happened on was a bunny hill compared to what is just up the way.


South Dakota, Um they im sure they had another beer and went out to check calves.

Loosing backcountry riding? Because of my video and talking has no affect on the chance of that. I would say that is going to be tree huggers that think we shouldn't have diesel pick ups, be able to burn two-stroke oil in our sleds or out-board motors, or getting into wild life protection, and trust me, in my line of work wild life protection can be super extensive.

Sorry to be excited for being able to walk away from this VERY stupid choice of where to climb. Also I am sorry if i embarrassed you for riding a snowmobile.

I think I have explained my story enough so this will be my last reply on this forum, thanks to all the guys with support, and even thanks to the guys that have negative things to say ( i can handle an *** chewing when i need it) , it will go along way when i decide where to climb.

 

[gregpeterson]

Why don't you all quit hating just because he climbed something he shouldn't have, how about you get off his back he did what anyone would do, most people would put that on facebook, twitter whatever social media people subscribe to just because they survived and avalanche. So therefore we are all vulnerable to what can happen at anytime. Just because he's not educated in avy classes doesn't mean he doesn't know the magnitude of what can happen when their is one. People get mad over the little things and if you honestly think this is going to even help try to shut down back country riding your fricken stupid, because their is so much money that is brought in by people who travel and the states would lose a lot of money

 

[Dartos]

What kind of money can a guy make off selling the rights to your video?

 

[Kleiny]

The first thing I noticed about this video was that right before the slide there was a sleder right by you and after the slide you went straight to your sled and started digging. Without locating the other sleder . Correct me if I'm wrong

 

[mtsummitx]

Don't let all the blowhards get ya down strong!!! Glad you and your riding partners are ok!!!! I thought that was a very cool video, once realizing everyone was all right. We all make stupid choices from time to time!!! I have been involved with mountain snowmobiling since I was about 7 or 8?? I have taken avy awareness course (not saying I am an avy expert by any means, just aware), I have the gear I need and know how to use it. Yet just a month and a half ago I made a bad choice on a hill, thankfully no avy but serious cracking!! Heavily windloaded where I went up, I knew it, I knew I shouldn't have went up it, but I did it anyways. Why?? I don't know, sometimes we just get caught up in the fun and like others have said, our brains shut down. It is good for these experiences to be seen, then maybe the next time we look at a hill, the images of others mistakes may flash through our minds and make us think just a little harder about what we are about to do.

 

[treemagnet03]

Don't think this will make any difference? Really?

I work in a department mixed with both outdoorsy and non-outdoory types and I can be quite sure that this was talked about the other day in a completely negative manner by all of them. I had to defend my interest in this kind of activity. All day.

You obviously do not realize that the tiniest action can have the worst of outcomes. Grow up, shut up, and by all means, educate yourself before someone is killed. I get sick of reversing Darwin's laws in the operating room on people who had every chance to know better. Rant over.

 

[ynotride]

Here is my perspective. I was located at 0:00 of the video, just unstuck across the valley and gathering my breath.

As I was adjusting my goggles I said to myself "when did that slide?" as I had been in the same valley the day before. Then the PUFFFFFF, it was sliding NOW!!! I will never forget counting as i went down that valley into the debris field. I NEED 4, I NEED 4, I NEED 4. I already had 2 in the valley and needed 2 more. When Strong got on top of his machine and waved, I only needed one more, then I look to my right and see deployed airbag coming out of the trees......5 on top. Thank God.


Now instead of bashing him non-stop and turning off everyone from the sport, or talking about it on a web site? lets all learn how to make it safer for all of us. If we dick with the new guys, they will push harder to not listen. I have 2 fifteen year old boys, I get it.


I had never met strong before saturday morning, but we All learned something that morning. Including not stating the obvious for fear of ridicule.We rode the rest of the day saturday and all day sunday without anyone being a "dummie".

I trust that Cody will educate himself as well as others after this.

 

[deadcat]

Lickass

Bunch of lickass going on...
Poor decisions are made by most of us. Strong was a lucky dumbass.
Regardless of our knowledge or back country training a few turns can alter our judgement. (Dozen more turns)

Think when we can so that we can avoid RIP bull****. Snowmobiling is too much fun to spoil it with poor decisions.

 

[deadcat]

Search "Animal"

Not a dummy, a learning opportunity....

 

[traw4life]

glad your ok! f the ney sayers, your groups still alive and thats all that counts. Lessons learned from the expirence

 

[snowmoboarder]

I hope that the end result is that these fella's take a avy level 1 soon.

As I was looking over reports of the 2 deaths that happened in a zone just north of where this video was shot I found this thread over at the tgr avalanche forum.


"Colorado Sledneck whacked by Avy, complete with obligatory GoPro Footie"

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...-by-Avy-complete-with-obligatory-GoPro-Footie

 

[duke1n]

I really don't give a rats arse if anyone wants to ride an avy chute. What makes you a dummy is running to the liberal enviro whacko media and blabbing about it. God this sport is full of dumbarses these days.

 

[WileyCoyote]

If I can ask, where did this happen? I think everyone learned something here. I know people have a hard time climbing one at a time, but at least have more people watching from a safe place than are climbing. On a side note Qreiff how's the leg?

 

[ynotride]

I really don't give a rats arse if anyone wants to ride an avy chute. What makes you a dummy is running to the liberal enviro whacko media and blabbing about it. God this sport is full of dumbarses these days.

I'll give you that and agree.


But it would be a little easier if your thread title was singular, that way the morons would know if we were excluded from the dummie.

 

[JHG]

Piers Morgan... HAHA. WTF, why of all people would you talk to him? People turn up bad chutes, cross open mountain faces 4 at a time, get caught in slides, don't wear seat belts, crash motorcycles with no helmet on, leave baby's in the car, forget to wear a condoms, etc...but there is no excuse for ever talking to Piers Morgan.

Glad you lived to ride another day.